Aristotle argues that provided we have moderate luck, we can attain eudaimonia through our own effort. He claims that it is crucial to attaining eudaimonia that we aim at an overall target in our lives to which all our ...

Spassis, Arthur(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)

This paper outlines the results of an economic and social research study in selected inner western suburbs of Adelaide undertaken in 2007. The study area was chosen due to the dominant presence of Greek businesses and ...

Since the late 1880s, Greeks have been involved in Australian pearling — initially in the pearl shell industry and then in pearl cultivation. The significant strength of the Greek contribution to Australian pearling far ...

When does modern Greek literature begin? Modern Greek and Byzantine scholarship have used various terms in the past in order to describe the same texts of the so-called vernacular Greek literature. Thus, the Epic of Digenis ...

The transmission of rhetoric from classical Greece to Byzantium provides a salutary study of the way in which the manipulation of language can shape not only the cultural and political ethos of a civilisation but its ...

Riak, Patricia(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)

This paper is an ethnographic portrayal of Greek and Ukrainian cross-cultural children in Melbourne at an age where marriage is a topic of discussion between parents and children, when ethnic traditions are discussed, ...

Kalivas, Tina(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)

This paper draws from a larger oral history project on the domestic food cultures of a group of Greek Cypriots residing in Melbourne between 1947 and 2003. It explores the ways in which food, and specifically recipes, ...

Wenham, Mathew(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)

The standard interpretation of the concept of katastematic pleasure in Epicurus has it referring to “static” states from which feeling is absent. We owe the prevalence of this interpretation to Cicero’s account of Epicureanism ...

Alexiou, Petro(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)

This paper examines how the writer Alekos Doukas (1900–1962) has been read and interpreted in later years as a migrant intellectual and socialist. I argue that Doukas has become a figure of myth through a process of oral ...

Please note: this article is in Greek. Authority and language in Modern Greek society: An approach: The present research is an interdisciplinary one and deals with the analytical category of gender. Specifically,
the ...

Mela-Athanasopoulou, Elizabeth(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)

The main issue of this paper is to show that for the derived nominalizations1 unmarked for gender in English, the Modern Greek counterparts are nominals, usually of feminine gender, which is always marked due to the high ...

Kazamias, Georgios(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)

Using recently declassified British documents, this paper looks at the negotiations for the demarcation of an agreed ceasefire line between the invading Turkish forces and the defending Greek-Cypriot National Guard. These ...

Aristotle claims that the most perfect happiness is a life of contemplation, which is a life as close to the supremely happy lives of the Gods as is possible in human life. This life is more perfectly happy because ...

Gregory, Andrew(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)

There is a debate about the account of the origins of the cosmos given in Plato’s Timaeus. Should we take it literally, as giving us a cosmogony? Or should it be taken metaphorically, giving an account of what the world ...

Mann, Scott(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)

This paper sets out to show that central aspects of Aristotle’s view of science are of continued contemporary relevance. It argues that a widespread failure to recognise this derives, in part, from a continued commitment ...

This paper attempts to record the popularity of recreational reading among pupils, focusing on their understanding of the text. Initially we explore the factors, i.e. family and school, that influence pupils’ reading habits. ...

Vardoulakis, Dimitris(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)

This paper shows that there are two notions of utopia operating in Aris Alexandrou’s novel The Mission Box (Το κιβώτιο). The first is the autarchic utopia espoused by the Communist Party and represented in the novel by the ...

Borghart, Pieter(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)

Refuting the assumption that the first novels after 1830 constitute the advent of Greek realism, this paper intends to corroborate Tziovas’s argument that these texts, drawing on the world construction of the Hellenistic ...

Kanarakis, George(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)

Interlanguage contact and its resulting influences are a fascinating and rewarding field for the scholar and the general reader. Among the benefits of studying this linguistic interaction is the assistance which it provides, ...